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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008

red and blue vintage dress

Spring has come back, and since last Sunday it has been warm and sunny. And I can now start wearing my new things. Finally!

Today I wore my new vintage red and blue dress. I love it. It is a beautifully soft cotton, with a boned, pleated bodice and a full skirt, and a bright cyan lining in the frill around the bust. I love this contrast between the bright red and the almost sky blue.

I headed of to the park to enjoy some sunshine (with, of course, the factor 30; I went for the Clarins. It's very good) to enjoy the last of the green grass before Summer's dried yellows kick in. I brought along another new purchase (spendy spend spend!) – a parasol. I have been looking for years for one like this, even scouring antiques shops in Hobart when there two summers ago. Finally, I found this one; it's not vintage, but it is exactly what I was looking for. Very Picnic at Hanging Rock – I think a day trip is on the cards!

I am know off to read all of your lovely blogs! What with my rather sporadic reading lately, I must have missed so much.

Gorgeous dress, parasol and pictures! Absolutely gorgeous! May I ask who takes your pictures? Melbourne provides such an amazing backdrop for pictures, I really should've taken some (silly me), yours are just stunning!

Beautiful dress! It is making me miss the warmer weather (I'm in the USA). But no, I should take advantage of layering weather while I can.:) Your parasol reminds me a lot of the kind you can find in Belgium (my home land). It is very Picnic at Hanging Rock.

wow, the dress looks adorable and the parasol is stunning. Its the sort of outfit that wants you to break out into a musical number about how lovely the weather is :)I've linked to you on my blogpoppet-style.com.au hope thats ok!

Hi! I found your photos today and loved it so much, I used one of them for my blog header. I hope that's okay with you, so let me know what you think and if it's not okay, let me know and I'll change it right away!! Love the dress and parasol...